Reuters United States Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

US to utilize AI to withdraw visas of students it views as Hamas advocates, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will use expert system to revoke visas of foreign trainees who it perceives as supporters of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, mentioning senior State Department authorities. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to fight antisemitism and has pledged to deport non-citizen university student and others who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have actually been ongoing for months in the middle of Israel’s military attack on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined variety of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of current hires this week, 3 people familiar with the matter stated, cuts that present and former U.S. intelligence officers warned would run the risk of damaging U.S. nationwide security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump presides over enormous federal labor force decreases supervised by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Veterans, farm groups knock Trump cuts at Democrat-run Arizona city center

Arizona farm groups and veterans brought together by Democratic chief law officers lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was neglecting judges who obstructed his executive orders and harming previous service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous town hall on Wednesday night organized by the country’s 23 Democratic attorneys basic, who have actually submitted suits to ask judges to obstruct a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and monetary support.

‘We’re in a dark space,’ US judge states on increasing risks

Threats versus U.S. judges are increasing and attorneys must do more to push back versus heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges said in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on clerical criminal offense in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said threats against the judiciary had gone up «significantly.»

Trump’s FDA candidate tepidly backs function for vaccine advisers in protected Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, informed lawmakers on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisers however stated he would reassess which clinical problems need their input. It was one of several issues on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards near to his chest while facing the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for 2 hours.

Trump informs cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, supervise of personnel cuts

U.S. President Donald Trump told his cabinet members on Thursday that they, not Elon Musk, have the last word on staffing and policy at their companies, according to a source acquainted with the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory function only, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk remained in the room and told the cabinet he was excellent with Trump’s strategy, the source stated.

Push for permanent US daytime conserving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight saving time irreversible in the United States appears to have actually stopped, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are equally divided over the concern. Daylight saving time — putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summertime half of the year to take advantage of the longer evenings — has actually been in place in nearly all of the United States since the 1960s, but advocates have pushed to make it year-round.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs faces brand-new indictment, is implicated of ‘required labor’

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a brand-new indictment versus Sean «Diddy» Combs, implicating the hip-hop magnate of staff members to work long hours and threatening to punish those who did not assist in his two-decade sex trafficking scheme. Combs, 55, still faces a scheduled May 5 trial in Manhattan on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to participate in prostitution. He has pleaded innocent.

US federal employees struck back at Trump mass shootings with class action complaints

U.S. government staff members who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently employed workers are reacting with class action-style problems claiming that the mass shootings are illegal and 10s of thousands of individuals should get their jobs back. Lawyers at 2 firms stated on Thursday that they had submitted 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board considering that recently and, along with other law companies, strategy to bring about 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of workers who were fired in recent weeks.

Trump administration need to make some foreign help payments by Monday, judge guidelines

The Trump administration need to make some payments to foreign aid contractors and grant recipients by 6 p.m. (1100 GMT) on Monday, a federal judge ruled on Thursday, a day after the U.S. Supreme Court rebuffed the administration’s request to prevent a due date for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a suit by contractors and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It orders the government to pay invoices submitted by the complainants in the event before February 13.